"...was a Russian-born American actress. She played supporting and lead roles in dozens of Broadway plays between 1903 and 1937, and eight U.S. silent movies between 1914 and 1917."
(c) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fania_Marinoff

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Fania Marinoff spent much of her life in the shadow of her husband, Carl Van Vechten. Though she had an extraordinary sense of drama and a great deal of flair, she was sometimes eclipsed by Van Vechten’s larger-than-life personality, so that even during her lifetime Marinoff was known to many mainly as “Carlo’s wife.” In spite of this, Marinoff was a woman of achievement in her own right."
(c) http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/cvvpw/gallery/marinof1.html